visible是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 可见的,这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢,今天小编就带您了解一下。
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Yes,' said Hawkeye, dropping his rifle, and leaning on it with an air of visible contempt, 'he will do their singing.
-- But while the earth was trodden, and the footsteps of both men and beasts were so plainly visible around the place, the trail appeared to have suddenly ended.
-- Though the return of Duncan was likely to remind them of his character, and the suspicious circumstances of his visit, it produced no visible sensation.
-- On the delivery of this solemn judgment, the patriarch seated himself, and closed his eyes again, as if better pleased with the images of his own ripened experience than with the visible objects of the world.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Beneath the lower point of the balloon swung a car, containing five passengers, scarcely visible in the midst of the thick vapor mingled with spray which hung over the surface of the ocean.
-- There was not a continent, nor even an island, visible beneath them.
-- It was the open sea, whose waves were still dashing with tremendous violence!It was the ocean, without any visible limits, even for those whose gaze, from their commanding position, extended over a radius of forty miles.
-- The rocks which were visible appeared like amphibious monsters reposing in the surf.
-- Towards the west, a cloudy belt, clearly visible at the horizon, increased the gloom, and the eye could not discover if the sky and water were blended together in the same circular line.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In some of the vessels at anchor all hands were busily engaged in coiling ropes, spreading out sails to dry, taking in or discharging their cargoes; in others no life was visible but two or three tarry boys, and perhaps a barking dog running to and fro upon the deck or scrambling up to look over the side and bark the louder for the view.
-- And yet there was visible on the part of the child a painful anxiety for his reply, and consciousness of his power to render it disagreeable or distressing, which was strongly at variance with this impulse and restrained it more effectually than she could possibly have done by any efforts of her own.
-- When the night had worn away thus far (and seldom now until it had) the child would close the window, and steal softly down stairs, thinking as she went that if one of those hideous faces below, which often mingled with her dreams, were to meet her by the way, rendering itself visible by some strange light of its own, how terrified she would be.
-- Dick leant over the table, and descried a small slipshod girl in a dirty coarse apron and bib, which left nothing of her visible but her face and feet.
-- Such inconveniences, however, instead of disgusting the dwarf with his new abode, rather suited his humour; so, after dining luxuriously from the public-house, he lighted his pipe, and smoked against the chimney until nothing of him was visible through the mist but a pair of red and highly inflamed eyes, with sometimes a dim vision of his head and face, as, in a violent fit of coughing, he slightly stirred the smoke and scattered the heavy wreaths by which they were obscured.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "But," said I, "If it travelled into the past it would have been visible when we came first into this room; and last Thursday when we were here; and the Thursday before that; and so forth!"
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The white rock, visible enough above the brush, was still some eighth of a mile further down the spit, and it took me a goodish while to get up with it, crawling, often on all fours, among the scrub.
-- And when, at last, I shouldered the coracle and groped my way stumblingly out of the hollow where I had supped, there were but two points visible on the whole anchorage.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The sea was distinctly visible for a mile all round the Nautilus.
-- These sailors were evidently of different nations, although the European type was visible in all of them.
-- Her masts were visible for an instant, but she could not see the Nautilus, being too low in the water.
-- Not a man of the crew was visible for an instant.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Everywhere were these noiseless ruddy creatures of fire drifting near the surface of the water, caught at by the rarest, scarce visible reflections.
-- And in this twilight of his life little remained visible to him.
-- Birkin was more a presence than a visible object, Gerald was aware of him completely, but not really visually.
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